Welcome to The Leading Supply Chain Professional Development Partnership

PanAvest International and Partners was formed to work with forward thinking businesses to enhance their value creation, market share and profitability. With advancement in information technology the organization in 2008 became “networked quasi-virtual company” with an extensive internationally independent shared vision partners and service providers.

We come together on a need basis to work on projects that make a real and sustainable difference to clients overall performance and bottom line results.

As business partners, we seek to continuously assist organizations to profitably differentiate themselves from the competition.

Strengthening organizational capabilities with PanAvest as an ally could well be the key to business continuity and future success.

Work hand in hand to create organizational capabilities that yield lasting results

Financial re-engineering and improvement

Serve as a counsel and facilitator on the need for renewed strategies viz-a-viz business logistics and supply chain challenges

Bring a wealth of knowledge and experiences to enable organizations confront major strategic decisions

Have a style and modus operandi that we believe will be compatible with forward thinking organizations

GLOSSARY

Blanket Purchase Order

A blanket order is defined as an order the customer makes with its supplier which contains multiple delivery dates scheduled over a period of time, sometimes at predetermined prices. It is normally used when there is a recurring need for expendable goods. Hence, items are purchased under a single purchase order (P.O) rather than processing a separate P.O. each time supplies are needed. Synonym: Standing Order Synonym: Blanket Order

Consultative Sales

A method of selling that emphasizes customer needs and meeting those needs with solutions combining products and/or services depending on customer profile.

Data Steward

The person responsible for maintaining consistency and precise of data during exchanges between computer systems.

Evaluated Receipts Settlement (ERS)

A process for authorizing payment for goods based on actual receipts with purchase order data, when price has already been negotiated. The basic premise behind ERS is that all of the information in the invoice is already transmitted in the shipping documentation. Therefore, the invoice is eliminated and the shipping documentation is used to pay the vendor.

Dock-to-Stock

A practice where pre-qualified product is received into inventory, eliminating the normal receiving and inspection handling involved. Also, a warehouse metric used to benchmark the amount of time required to perform the processes associated with getting received items into storage.

Packing and Marking

Sometimes referred to as preservation, packaging and marking, these are the activities related to packing for shipping by placing goods into designated containers, and labeling (marking) the container with customer prescribed destination and other information.

General Commodities Carrier

A common motor carrier that has operating authority to transport general commodities, or all commodities not listed as special commodities.

Long term socio-economic transformation starts with you.

Some people use money to make a difference. Others use knowledge and experience to effect long term positive change

I can only be happy when I see the youth and children around me also happy.

Any country in Africa that through the governing party believes they can economically go it alone is leading its people down the wrong path.

I am who I am today because of what someone sacrificed for me.

To build wealth that transcends generations you need to think beyond yourself.

Africa as individual nations is economically insignificant. Africa as one economic block is already an economic giant.

Beware of the ides of aid

Our ancestors selflessly strived to build a better future for us. Therefore we are duty bound to at least try to better what was started for the next generation.

As a business leader when you think South African your market just under 60 million people. However when you think African your market is just under 1 BILLION PEOPLE.

Do not always blame the government for your woes. Sometimes also critically look at yourself in the mirror and ask what role you have played in creating the woes

We are constantly told to think outside the box. The big question who gave you that box that is been used as a reference point?

There is no such thing as free money or aid.

Negotiating and Bargaining are two different concepts

You know and understand your problem. You are the only one that can solve it.

Our destiny is in our own hands.

Having self-respect, knowledge and purpose helps in navigating the complex journey of life

Trusting one another is the one of the keys to long term socio-economic freedom

What I am doing is not for me but for the African child. I was once an African Child

I may not have money to give you but certainly has knowledge and experience to help you change your attitude towards long term wealth creation

Africans may be surrounded by poverty but the continent is certainly not poor

Economic empowerment is about long term wealth creation and not about short term materialistic entitlement.

Human beings by nature are risks averse and will not take chances with people they do not know and trust.

Throwing money at poverty related issues may yield short term benefits but may make matters worse. Mindset change is the key long term poverty alleviation

The journey of life is not necessarily about how you started. Rather it is how you finished

We must also concretize our search for innovative and alternate resource mobilization strategies, and in the spirit of Pan-Africanism urge those who are better endowed in any area or any resource, to show solidarity to others who may currently be less endowed

Dr Nkososana Zuma
- May 2013

If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow

Isaac Mophatlane

Whilst the rest of the World are strategically sourcing from Africa for long term economic development Africans are generally buying from the rest of the world for short term development

Professor Douglas Boateng
- CIPS Seminar Botswana--2012

The value of an idea lies in the using of it

Thomas Edison
- General Electric Co-founder

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened
by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were

David Rockefeller

“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.”

Richard Branson
- Virgin Group founder

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing

Walt Disney
- Disney founder

We all one people divided by artificial borders which are pulling us economically backwards

Professor Douglas Boateng
- ACCOSCA Conference 2013

Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Bruce Levin

No independent African State today by itself has a chance to follow an INDEPENDENT course of economic development, and many of us who have tried to do this have been almost ruined or have had to return to the fold of the former colonial rulers. This position will not change unless we have unified POLICY working at the CONTINENTAL LEVEL

Dr Kwame Nkrumah
- 1963

In addition to exporting raw materials and human capital, African is increasingly exporting hard
currency to support the continents insatiable desire for goods made outside the continent

Professor Douglas Boateng
- CIPS-SBLUNISA 2013

Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else

Sara Blakely
- SPANX founder

We have the blessing of the wealth of our vast resources, the power of our talents and the potentialities of our people. Let us grasp now the opportunities before us and meet the challenge to our survival

Dr Kwame Nkrumah
- 1965

The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognize themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire African continent

Dr Kwame Nkrumah
- 1963

Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once

Drew Houston
- Dropbox founder and CEO

By far the greatest wrong which the departing colonialists inflicted on us, and which we now continue to inflict on ourselves in our present state of disunity, was to leave us divided into economically unviable States which bear no possibility of real development...

Dr Kwame Nkrumah

Poverty is not an accident like slavery and apartheid. It is made-made and can be removed by the actions of human being

Nelson Mandela

One of the principal reasons why genuine industrialization cannot easily be realized in Africa today is that the market for manufactured goods in any single African country is too small

Walter Rodney (1972)

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy

J. Paul Getty

Change, before you have to

Jack Welch

Change is vital; improvement is the logical form of change

James Cash Penny

Over the past decades…while many businesses have pursued what I call ‘business as usual’, I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda

Anita Roddick

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore; It will be the fast beating the slow

Rupert Murdoch

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear

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